Today AAPL cap is $235 B, MSFT is 221 B, according to Google quotes.
If they only sold a bunch, one can rightfully assume that it's "Apple Fanboys", but they're not selling by the bucket-load, they're selling these things by the millions even if you're scratching your head "why?".
When someone is successful, it's useful to think about why they are successful - and sure if they stop doing "whatever they are doing wrong" maybe they will continue or prevent their future failure - or maybe there is something else going on and figuring out the reason can be quite informative. If you just think about the negative, you may never find out the truth. Who is buying it, what are people using it for, what are advantages - and it is a mistake to assume only idiots are buying it. Even if that is the case, remember the adage that you can learn from anyone, even an idiot.
I don't have one. I'm waiting to see what they do with V2.0. I'm thinking "why would I want one?" and I've been surprised that I have found a number of times where it could be useful.
Get some Stevia no calorie but all natural (cough) sweetener.
Probably will taste about the same as that anti-matter swill that you've been using.
Plus it'll be somewhat healthier as you wouldn't have total annihilation going on in your digestive tract so you wouldn't need to eat as many Tums afterwards.
While I would agree with you, isn't there more than electrical charge being reversed - like quantum numbers.
Also while it seems quite reasonable to expect that gravity to be unaffected going from matter to anti matter, has it ever been demonstrated experimentally?
Nature always seems to have surprises to mess with out theories and our minds:-)
yeah I have a Milwaukee 1/2" hole shooter. 20 years old now, lots of renovations and projects. Enough power for anything you do with a drill and precise enough so that I can put screws in drywall using only a #2 phillips bit
B&D bought those companies (guess now "divisions") so they didn't make them what they are.
Kind of like Chrysler who bought Mercedes.
B&D had the rep and the name early on but they pissed it away.
Same with Sears tools - common knowledge used to be you couldn't go wrong buying any tool from Sears.
But then Sears went after low end and there went their reputation. Except for most of their "Craftsman" hand tools. Power tools not much different than B&D.
Yeah you have to pay for the good stuff. But one ruined or delayed project (or injury), even for amateurs, makes the better tool worth it.
Don't have experience with Ryobi (never appealed to me) but Black & Decker - have they improved their quality? In ancient times they were considered to be excellent quality - I still have some B&D drills that are from 1960's (or earlier - hand me down) still working, but besides for occasional use, every other Black & Decker that I used was crap - motors burned out easily or tolerances so bad I would use it only for rough work.
Milwaukee, Porter Cable, Bosch, Makita (most), most of the Rigid line are what I call "professional tools". You use them, you abuse them, they still work with great tolerances as long as you don't throw them out the window from a skyscraper.
Sure - all tables saws have splitters and blade guards which make it somewhat more difficult to get injured unless you're inattentive or all thumbs.
Would be nice if you had that finger detector thingy for the blade, but you get what you pay for - be nice if all cars had better side reinforcing and other safety equipment, but then price is one reason people get SUVs (which, besides bulk, tend to have fewer safety features than regular cars).
In addition, any wood worker ( or as enthusiasts humbly call themselves - "wood butchers" ) worth his/her salt knows basic safety methods such as keeping the work place clean and clear, make setting before turning power on, use a push stick for smaller pieces of wood, don't cross hands (especially when near the blade), leave the beer for after the woodworking, and if you ever need to remove the safety equipment, and there are times when you need to do this, you treat the process as if you were balancing the sharp end of a meat clever on your d!(k - be very alert and proceed very very carefully - no wrong moves or lose something important (important to youself anyhow).
I don't understand your objection to a Macro lens. I am not suggesting that the lens be used in macro mode - the reason that I specifically indicated that type of lens is because they tend to be the sharpest lens available with the least distortion.
I could understand if you thought I meant zoom macro which is another story. (I did neglect to specify "fixed length" lens.
You are correct in saying that using (a good) film would produce superior results than shooting digital.
Wow - I wonder if the folks at the ACS will wonder why the paper "{trans-1,4-Bis[(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]benzene}(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Complexes and Their Supramolecular Assemblies with -Cyclodextrin" suddenly became so popular
and then be disappointed to find out it was the SlashDot effect.
My question, as a chemist, is what is the equilibrium constant - how fast does it go from product to reactant and back ?
Also, is the reaction reproducible?
Are there any degenerate orbitals involved?
Is it reproducible, even with protecting groups attached?
If I had this project, I would start with digital SLR with telephoto macro lens.
Lay the map on the floor and use a mat frame that has some weight to hold the section to be photographed down.
Weight should be such that it holds the map down but doesn't press so hard that it damages the map. The idea of the frame is that it delimitates that area that you are photographing so that you have a reference to the next spot to photograph (should overlap a little). In addition, you have a reference for squareness of the picture should the camera not be perfect parallel to the map - in which case you can use a program such as Photoshop to correct the perspective (at least the versions that I have used it is in the "crop" tool - there is an option for perspective)
At the least, camera with telephoto lens or telephoto part of zoom would distort the image less than a wide angle, although the telephoto aspect would create more work in that more sections of the map would need photographing and you might need to be further away from the document.
For best results generally you would use a SLR with Macro lens. This type of lens generally provides the flattest field at reasonable cost even when it is not used in macro mode.
Then you've got architectural lenses, but those cost an arm and a leg and a foot - but then again, renting is always an option...
Offshoots of the tech required for particle physics - practical superconductors that can carry well more than 100 amps of current.
NMR == Structure Elucidation (one application of NMR spectroscopy is) for drug development
You need extremely high field magnets with incredibly homogeneous fields for this type of work - which came from those developed for particle physics.
You can only analyze simple molecules with iron core magnets of the 30's - 70's, although they are still in use for process monitoring.
MRI for medical imaging came about in the '70- 80s and you are absolutely correct in that it is a branch of NMR. The "N" in the name was dropped because doctors and techs got tired of explaining that there is no radioactivity involved, which the nuclear name seems to imply. Surface coils for MRI were developed in the late (?) 80's - those are needed for any type of reasonable resolution for imaging.
I wish I was smart enough to explain what advances were due directly to particle physics besides waving my arms and saying understanding how the universe works:-)
Yes - unless there is something causing total isolation (such as remoteness), if there are regions of antimatter in the universe, we should see fronts of energy between the matter and antimatter regions as particles meet and annihilate. (think analogous to solar wind - particles leaving galaxies and meeting up wit matter)
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Today AAPL cap is $235 B, MSFT is 221 B, according to Google quotes.
If they only sold a bunch, one can rightfully assume that it's "Apple Fanboys", but they're not selling by the bucket-load, they're selling these things by the millions even if you're scratching your head "why?".
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/22/ipad-sales-accelerate/ iPad sales accelerate, 3 million sold in 80 days or one every 2.3 seconds
When someone is successful, it's useful to think about why they are successful - and sure if they stop doing "whatever they are doing wrong" maybe they will continue or prevent their future failure - or maybe there is something else going on and figuring out the reason can be quite informative. If you just think about the negative, you may never find out the truth. Who is buying it, what are people using it for, what are advantages - and it is a mistake to assume only idiots are buying it. Even if that is the case, remember the adage that you can learn from anyone, even an idiot.
I don't have one. I'm waiting to see what they do with V2.0. I'm thinking "why would I want one?" and I've been surprised that I have found a number of times where it could be useful.
Market caps are almost the same.
They're both around 200 B and change.
http://www.everythingicafe.com/aapl-passes-msft-in-market-cap/2010/05/26/
http://247wallst.com/2010/05/27/apple-beats-microsoft-in-market-value-msft-aapl/
http://www.9to5mac.com/AAPL-MSFT-345345332
Never see anything like that in my basement :-)
IMHO Nukes are the only way forward.
Yeah, but didn't the guy who put a nuke into his car go backward in time?
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Animal615.jpg
http://deguhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Chris_and_Aarron.jpg
Or for somewhat less portable and still untapped energy source:
http://www.healthstylesexercise.com/catalog/images/Landice_L7_Treadmill.jpg
Probably will taste about the same as that anti-matter swill that you've been using.
Plus it'll be somewhat healthier as you wouldn't have total annihilation going on in your digestive tract so you wouldn't need to eat as many Tums afterwards.
Also while it seems quite reasonable to expect that gravity to be unaffected going from matter to anti matter, has it ever been demonstrated experimentally?
Nature always seems to have surprises to mess with out theories and our minds :-)
The universe is missing a whole freaking lot of anti-matter.
Uh -sorry, I'll return it in the morning.
Didn't think anyone would miss it...
I'm not saying that this analog makes it wrong or right - this is SlashDot where car analogies are a requirement.
and be sure to write a letter to the offending company the reason that you will not do repeat business with them.
If that father wanted to hear his daughter all he had to do was unplug it.......
Then:
*unplug phone*
"Daaaadddddeeeeee I was talking to my booooyyyyyyfrieeeennnnnndddd!"
Now:
*unplug wireless*
"Daaaadddddeeeeee I was IM'ing my booooyyyyyyfrieeeennnnnndddd!"
Yeah dads can hear their daughters all right.
Another important lesson is "Do NOT try to catch a falling soldering iron with remaining unseared hand."
There, fixed that for you in typical SlashDot style.
user-friendly formats
What is considered user friendly?
Word docs (but then you'll get docs with options such that only MS Word can read ?)
text ?
PDF ?
yeah I have a Milwaukee 1/2" hole shooter. 20 years old now, lots of renovations and projects. Enough power for anything you do with a drill and precise enough so that I can put screws in drywall using only a #2 phillips bit
Kind of like Chrysler who bought Mercedes.
B&D had the rep and the name early on but they pissed it away.
Same with Sears tools - common knowledge used to be you couldn't go wrong buying any tool from Sears.
But then Sears went after low end and there went their reputation. Except for most of their "Craftsman" hand tools. Power tools not much different than B&D.
Yeah you have to pay for the good stuff. But one ruined or delayed project (or injury), even for amateurs, makes the better tool worth it.
Sadly, nowadays academic schools with the equipment don't teach kids how to use it for fear of lawsuits.
Milwaukee, Porter Cable, Bosch, Makita (most), most of the Rigid line are what I call "professional tools". You use them, you abuse them, they still work with great tolerances as long as you don't throw them out the window from a skyscraper.
some safety solutions should exist.
Sure - all tables saws have splitters and blade guards which make it somewhat more difficult to get injured unless you're inattentive or all thumbs.
Would be nice if you had that finger detector thingy for the blade, but you get what you pay for - be nice if all cars had better side reinforcing and other safety equipment, but then price is one reason people get SUVs (which, besides bulk, tend to have fewer safety features than regular cars).
In addition, any wood worker ( or as enthusiasts humbly call themselves - "wood butchers" ) worth his/her salt knows basic safety methods such as keeping the work place clean and clear, make setting before turning power on, use a push stick for smaller pieces of wood, don't cross hands (especially when near the blade), leave the beer for after the woodworking, and if you ever need to remove the safety equipment, and there are times when you need to do this, you treat the process as if you were balancing the sharp end of a meat clever on your d!(k - be very alert and proceed very very carefully - no wrong moves or lose something important (important to youself anyhow).
I could understand if you thought I meant zoom macro which is another story. (I did neglect to specify "fixed length" lens.
You are correct in saying that using (a good) film would produce superior results than shooting digital.
and then be disappointed to find out it was the SlashDot effect.
My question, as a chemist, is what is the equilibrium constant - how fast does it go from product to reactant and back ?
Also, is the reaction reproducible?
Are there any degenerate orbitals involved?
Is it reproducible, even with protecting groups attached?
If I had this project, I would start with digital SLR with telephoto macro lens.
Lay the map on the floor and use a mat frame that has some weight to hold the section to be photographed down.
Weight should be such that it holds the map down but doesn't press so hard that it damages the map. The idea of the frame is that it delimitates that area that you are photographing so that you have a reference to the next spot to photograph (should overlap a little). In addition, you have a reference for squareness of the picture should the camera not be perfect parallel to the map - in which case you can use a program such as Photoshop to correct the perspective (at least the versions that I have used it is in the "crop" tool - there is an option for perspective)
For best results generally you would use a SLR with Macro lens. This type of lens generally provides the flattest field at reasonable cost even when it is not used in macro mode.
Then you've got architectural lenses, but those cost an arm and a leg and a foot - but then again, renting is always an option...
NMR == Structure Elucidation (one application of NMR spectroscopy is) for drug development
You need extremely high field magnets with incredibly homogeneous fields for this type of work - which came from those developed for particle physics.
You can only analyze simple molecules with iron core magnets of the 30's - 70's, although they are still in use for process monitoring.
MRI for medical imaging came about in the '70- 80s and you are absolutely correct in that it is a branch of NMR. The "N" in the name was dropped because doctors and techs got tired of explaining that there is no radioactivity involved, which the nuclear name seems to imply. Surface coils for MRI were developed in the late (?) 80's - those are needed for any type of reasonable resolution for imaging.
I wish I was smart enough to explain what advances were due directly to particle physics besides waving my arms and saying understanding how the universe works :-)
Internet was result of DARPA.
Web at CERN.
Can't believe I got that one backwards - maybe the quarks in my brain flipped out with all this anti matter discussion.
That would be the only evidence AFAIK.